Hello I am a former modder who has worked on many levels for TFC, Day of Defeat, Jedi Outcast etc. I also did some freelance artwork for a bunch of fairly unfashionable games in the middle of last decade and did a brief stint at Codemasters but left due to lack of work life balance.

I now work for a non gaming software company in England and quite happy to play games in my spare time and cheer from the sidelines.

Indeed that difficult second album syndrome. That is the problem of success in any medium, once you get known for one thing people tend to want you to give more of that same thing or something fairly similar. It 's why some of the most authors in the world are ...

I sort of agree with that but I also think some of the old time game designers were also posers. In that they were effectively glorified project managers and didn 't have a skill set themselves. Yet talked a lot in the media passing themselves off as geniuses by taking ...

One of my problems with Warren over the years is that he continuously espouses ideas about how games should be. But despite having been the head of several studios has never really done any of the things he has talked about in his interviews. r n r nLike when he ...

I get what you are saying. hell I think they could hire a younger team of devs to make additional game content to appease the masses. I have often felt they are missing a trick by not making something akin to Left 4 Dead in play style but set in ...

I sort of agree with what you are saying. You do sense that Kojima in particular would rather be making films. His cringeworthy fanboyism of the medium and boasting about hanging with actors and directors is palpable. What 's worse is that he and too many others simply rip fairly ...